IRISH TURMOIL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 18 May 1922, Page 5

IRISH TURMOIL.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN DOWN. ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE DAIL. Press Assn. —By Tel.—Copyright. London, May 17. It is officially announced in the Dail Eireann that the peace negotiations have broken down. SINN FEIN RESOLUTION. DISBANDMENT OF SPECIAL POLICE. London, May 17. The Sinn Fein executive at Belfast passed a resolution on behalf of the persecuted and terrorised minority of this city calling on the Dail Eireann forthwith to establish a stable Government, declaring its conviction that the best means of acquiring peace in Belfast is the establishment of peace in the rest of Ireland; also expressing the opinion that until the special police are paid up by the British Government and disbanded or disarmed there will not be peace and condemning the deploring rule of the gun for which the rule of the people should be submitted.

FUNERAL CORTEGE FIRED ON. LONDON, May 16. At the funeral of Beattie, the murdered Belfast policeman, Sinn Feiners, without the least provocation, fired into the mourners following the coffin. Several persons were shot and the clergy had a narrow escape. Women and children in the streets were terror stricken and fled screaming, or lay in heaps on the ground. Military police, in cars, guarding the funeral, turned and fired upon the attackers, who returned the fire. A man named Fadden, concerned in the firing, was pursued by the infuriated mob into a shop where he was shot dead.